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Topic: Looking for DCS Happy People to help with Tings Plugin.

mrFlipo Posts: 476 Registered: Jun 24, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 465 User ID: 815,685	Subject: Looking for DCS Happy People to help with Tings Plugin.
	I have Tings doing DCS now but I'm working to improve the accuracy and maybe even get the colors without the DCS.XML. If interested let me know. -----signature----- (none)
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immortalbob Title: AC Vault Staff I am batman! Posts: 11,887 Registered: Feb 24, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 11,708 User ID: 649,929	Subject: Looking for DCS Happy People to help with Tings Plugin.
	what kinda help are you looking for? did you move tings to a new location btw? old download links dont work. -----signature----- ImmortalBob, Axer Extraordinaire +Turbine Sappho tells you, "I am starting to think you are immortal"
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Virindi-Inquisitor Posts: 6,908 Registered: Nov 18, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 6,646 User ID: 511,923	Subject: Looking for DCS Happy People to help with Tings Plugin.
	An armor "color" is actually a palette ID. Each palette contains a range of colors for each of the slots that a piece of armor could occupy which has that palette. So, finding an EXACT color to correspond to a palette ID is impossible. This also explains why certain 'colors' sometimes don't match when you find different pieces with the same 'color'. Object palette data is found within the 'model' struct of the CreateObject packet. There you will find a paletteCount, and for each palette entry a palette ID, an offset, and a length. Those last two values indicate which portion of the palette should be applied to the piece. This depends on the piece's slots. Game palettes are portal files starting with 0x04. To get a palette entry, OR the palette ID with 0x04000000 and retrieve the portal file using Decal FileService. If you look at these palette files, you will see that they are just an array of X8R8G8B8 colors. The length and offset fields specify a range within this array of colors. -----signature----- Virindi --- **Virindi Plugins FAQ** http://www.virindi.net/wiki/index.php/Virindi_Plugins_FAQ http://www.virindi.net - Virindi Tank, Follower, Integrator, Reporter, VCS5, XPHelper, Item Tool, HUDs, etc... Decal Core Dev - http://www.decaldev.com
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mrFlipo Posts: 476 Registered: Jun 24, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 465 User ID: 815,685	Subject: Looking for DCS Happy People to help with Tings Plugin.
	immortalbob, 1. Basically what is needed is to install Tings( See below). When doing DCS type of stuff in game use AC Companion( part of Tings now) and pick colors. 2. Yes, ACQuickLaunch and Tings moved to a new location. ACQLaunch Tings If anyone is interested in helping and hopefully has SKYPE please PM your skype name. Tings Installation Note: The help file is out of date. We want to use firebird 2.5 although older version will work fine. 1. Download Tings MSI from the web site. http://www.rangersrus.net/ You should find Tings on the left side of screen under Resource Sites. 2. If you do not have Firebird server installed on any PC in your local LAN then below will help you install it. Note: You only need to install Firebird server on one pc on your local LAN. So if you have multiple PC then you may want to choose the PC that is always on when you play AC. You can get the Firebird installer from http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=engine_250 Uses either Firebird-2.5.0.26074_1_Win32.exe Firebird-2.5.0.26074_1_x64.exe Run the firebird install and basically accept the defaults. I typically choose 'Classic' but you may want "Super Server". 3. Run Tings installer on the PC that you installed Firebird on. 4. Read the help file AC Companion.rtf for further configuration/setup directions. Help file is located where you installed Tings. -----signature----- (none)
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mrFlipo Posts: 476 Registered: Jun 24, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 465 User ID: 815,685	Subject: Looking for DCS Happy People to help with Tings Plugin.
	Howdy Virindi-Inquisitor, Yup thanks for the information. All you have mentioned is done by Tings. The real people picking color part of Tings is what will provide me the information as to what items gets us to the 'right' color. There are also palettes you can not export which lends to other issues. Textures are also brought into play. -----signature----- (none)
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Virindi-Inquisitor Posts: 6,908 Registered: Nov 18, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 6,646 User ID: 511,923	Subject: Looking for DCS Happy People to help with Tings Plugin.
	Ah, I guess I misunderstood what you were asking for -----signature----- Virindi --- **Virindi Plugins FAQ** http://www.virindi.net/wiki/index.php/Virindi_Plugins_FAQ http://www.virindi.net - Virindi Tank, Follower, Integrator, Reporter, VCS5, XPHelper, Item Tool, HUDs, etc... Decal Core Dev - http://www.decaldev.com
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